Letter from Christ by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 13.

"Letter from Christ."

By Editor

A correspondent from Kansas sends us the alleged "letter written by Christ." We have received something like a half-score of these during the last year. This one happens to be signed "N. G.;" and while the SIGNS OF THE TIMES does not believe in slang, it thinks that this signature is very appropriate indeed, in its common acceptation of "no good." It is a characteristic production of a superstition of medieval times. It pronounces curses on those that work on the Sabbath; it advises fasts five days in the year, beginning on "Good Friday." It tells us that "he that hath a copy of this letter written by my own mouth [most people write with their hand], and keepeth it without publishing it to others, shall not prosper; and whoever shall have a copy of this letter, and keep it in their house, nothing shall hurt them, neither pestilence, thunder or lightning," and a lot of other just such nonsense. Evidently a number of the country papers are almost afraid not to publish it, for it has been published by a great many, like the man who fears to look at the new moon over his left shoulder. But we wish to say to our readers, one and all, "The curse causeless shall not come." Our dear Lord has left us His Word,—mighty, effective, life-giving, clear, strong, sound, elevating, pure. It would be a reflection on Him, nay, it would be a reflection on one of less than ordinary sense, to believe that He wrote such a production as this. Our correspondent asks if we will publish it. We haven't space for any such matter. Our correspondent asks if there was a day at that time known as Saturday. Perhaps there was in heathendom, but we do not believe that those who lived in Palestine, or used the language of the Jews, ever knew it by that term.